Water-controlling device.



UNITED STATES Patented August 18, 1903.

PATENT Fries.

WATER-CONTROLLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,754, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed May 25, 1903. Serial No. 158.579. (No ulnar To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMERICH J. MARKEL, a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, (with a postoffice address in the above place,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \VatcnControlling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for controlling the flow of water delivered by the waterworks to the consumer, and is especially adapted for tenement-houses to regulate the iiow of water as it passes from the main line through the meter into the tenement and is to be inserted immediately beyond the water-meter which registers the water-supply for the building.

The object of my invention is to provide a device which controls the I low of the water delivercd to the house and which may be regulated and adjusted to any extent desired without interfering with the making of repairs by the plulllbl, as he shuts elf the water bythc valve known in practice as the drip and waste cock, which is either turned on full or closed entirely.

Another object of this invention is to provide a devicewhercby it will be impossible for the meter to register a greater supply of water than aetu all y passes through the meter,

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g It is a well-known fact that the pressure in the water-mains is very high in order to force the water to the top of tcl'iements and the highest oflicc-lniildings, and therefore the same high pressure exists in all smaller buildings well throughout the city, and there is, conscquently,au unnecessarily rapid ilowoi' water in all the closct-valvcs, and it is well known to property owners that these valves must be renewed frequently, as the water wears out The amount the seats of the valves, and this is obviated by reducing the flow of water, but still maintainin g the same ultimate pressure. It is also well known that tenants in the discharge of their household duties exercise little or no care in-saving water, but keep it running at full force'as long as they are using water, particularly in rinsing dishes, &c.,.the results of which appear in the property-owners semiannual water-bills, and it is therefore to his interest not only'to watch the controller, but to prevent a useless Waste of water, especially.

in summer,when the water-supply is often not abundant.

The device embodying the structural peculiarities of my invention in its preferred construetion is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on a line passing through the center of my improved water-controlling device. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of What is shown in Fig. l and looking in the direction toward which the arrow 2 points." side view of theioaffle-plate in its preferred construction. Fig. 4: is a modification of what is shown in- Fig. 1, but using a fiat disk for a bal'ilc-plate instead of the hollow spherical segment. Figs. 5 and U are respectively a plan and end view of the disk-like battle-plate, indicated in the modification of Fig. 4.

In the preferred construction herein shown and described the water-controlling device consists of a coupling having a nozzle integral therewith, a battle-plate mounted directly Fig. 3 is an out opposite the nozzle and provided witlrtt' stem vidcd on its inner end with the nozzle 8, di-

rcctly rearward ol? which the coupling enlargcsto the hub Hi, which is provided with an internal thread into which is screwed the head 1!, which is connected at the right-hand side with the water-pipe 10, leading to the building. The head is again providedwith a bridge 9, in the hub of which is fitted the stem 11 of the battle-plate 11. In the preferred construction I have shown the bafileplate as a hollow spherical segment, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to deflect the water as it comes through the pipe 7 in the direction of the arrow 7, and the water then passes through the annular opening between the halide-plate 11 and the straight inner side 9 of the head .i, and the area of that annular opening is equal to the area of the pipe 7 or A certain portion of the inner side of the head 9 is conical, as indicated by the numeral 0 and to decrease the annular openingformed between the outer circumference of the battleplate and the inside of the head 9'in order to further restrict the flow of the water I have arranged for the adjustment of the batheplate the set-screws 12, which are supported and tightly threaded in the head 9, and the ends of those screws bear against the baflieplate 11. I have preferably shown three of the adjusting screws 12; but any number could be employed. To prevent leakage of water around the threaded portion of the adjusting-screws, I have provided over each screw 12 the water-tight plug 13.

It will be observed that the stem, and thereby the bafiie-plate, the head 9 with its coneshaped seat, the coupling with its nozzle, and the pipes 7 and 10 are all in axial alinenient.

In the modification of Fig. 4 the construction is identical except that the baffle-plate is a fiat disk instead of the hollow spherical segment.

Having thus described my invention, what rsarte I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a water-controlling device, the combination of the coupling 8, the water-pipe 7 threaded to one end, the nozzle at the other end and integral with the coupling, the head 9 threaded to the coupling and provided on its inner sidewith a cone-shaped seat, the spherical segment shaped baflie plate the inner side of which is cupped for deflecting the flow of water, the pipe 10threaded to the head all in axial alinement with one another and means for adjusting the baffle-plate substantially as described.

2. In awater-controlling device, the combination of the coupling, the nozzle integral with the coupling, the head provided on its inner side with a cone-shaped seat, the baiiie-plate mounted concentrieal with the head and means for adjusting the battle-plate consisting of a series of set-screws 12.

In awater-controlling device, the combination of the coupling, the nozzle integral with the coupling, the head provided on its inner side with a cone-shaped seat, the baflie plate mounted .concentrical with the head and.

means for adjusting the bafiie-plate consisting of a series of set-screws 12, andthe plugs 13 forming-a water-tight .joint for the setscrews.

Sig-ned by me at Hartford, Connecticut, this 

